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It seems like the best solution for you would be your own board. Maybe worth outsourcing that? You know you're overpaying for that board from Avnet, plus that heatsink solution... Not technological I'd say.

Tomas D.

Den fredag den 15. maj 2015 kl. 14.38.01 UTC+2 skrev Tomas D.:

Depends on how many you need

The pcb needs blind microvias, 8~10 layers, tracks to DDR RAM need to be matched to a few millimeters. So before you have made the layout and sourced all the components and have the thing build the microzed might seem like a bargain.

-Lasse

The uZed makes sense for low-volume, complex, relatively high-priced products, 10 to maybe 50 units a year. It has the SOC, flash, SDcard, DRAM, gB Ethernet, USB, power supplies, Linux, all that done and working. The two boxes that we've done used all of that stuff. The real downside is the ghastly Xilinx development software and horrible support.

Future simpler products that have volume potential, we'll probably switch over from our current habits (separate NXP ARM and Altera chips) to an Altera SOC, now that they are available.

The two-chip thing works, but it wastes a lot of FPGA balls to provide CPU access, and the FPGA register access is only 16 bits wide, asynchronous and slow.

We use Altera Cyclone V SoC for automotive and so far - it's great. I can't tell about reliability yet, but the support from Altera was amazing. We've got exactly zero from X.

Tomas D.

Good news. That's probably our future path.